[TIP] Nosejobs!

[Jesse Noller]

On Apr 10, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  
wrote:

> Jesse Noller wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Michael Foord
>> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Doug Philips wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> I'm really looking forward to seeing what pony-build might be,  
>>>>>> so I hope Titus gets around to spec'ing his version of simple  
>>>>>> build pony stuff soon. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Meh, Titus' idea is simple enough that a spec might just muddy  
>>>>> it up
>>>>> ;)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Maybe, but if it is too hard to describe, it is too hard to get  
>>>> right.
>>>> The product is the spec? Hmmm, CPython vs. Jython vs. IronPython  
>>>> vs. PyPy - need to go that route? Again?
>>>> Pandokia's spec seems awful simple.
>>>> Personally, I'm rather fond of Titus' initial proposal: Work out  
>>>> the results level protocol, then build tools around that. Yes,  
>>>> you might want to build tools to help work that out, but if  
>>>> you've done lots of these systems before, as have some of the  
>>>> rest of us, we should be able to leverage that knowledge...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Once you have a results protocol different people can then build
>>> different tools around it - reporting tools, distributed test  
>>> tools etc.
>>> Sounds like a winner to me. Not looked at the Pandokia spec yet.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>
>> As much as I hate XML, it works awfully well for this in many cases.
>> Again, not a fan of flat text/key-value pairs, I already went down
>> that route for a few years :(
>>
>
> Yeah, and at least with XML building tools on top of it shouldn't  
> require writing a custom parser.
>
> Just don't use CDATA for the traceback reporting - that's how we  
> broke CruiseControl.NET (some of test failures were for the XML  
> parts of our app and the error messages themselves contained CDATA  
> blocks - which *can't* be escaped inside another CDATA block...).
>
> Michael


Yeah, I've run into the same thing - partially the reason I like YAML  
or JSON

Jesse